

Going to 64-bit won't give a speed increase in itself. Soon you have lossy compression artifacts that are impossible to remove. Imagine that your video is in a compressed format such as JPG every time you change and re-save, the file is recompressed and more data is lost. There are plenty of lossless compressors around. As you seem to want to make different corrections, you should avoid working with compressed audio or video. There is so much free software available for editing and other corrections that get better results. Good idea?) The weak spot is SONY Platinum. Sony Movie Studio 9 Platinum (probably will upgrade to the Sony Movie Studio 12 Platinum Suite to take advantage of the 64 bit version.

Thanks, I appreciate the input from those with expertise.

Render a constant bitrate at or above the recorded rate (24Mbps)? Should I use the camera presets for shutter speed/exposure? or learn what's needed and adjust manually?įiles are AVCHD (.MTS) and seem to edit fine in movie studio. Should I manual white balance? If so, what is the best way? (the camera has auto, and several presets for types of lighting) Should I record 60i, 30p or 24p? (not sure if these are true frame rates or not, but my understanding is that they are all in a 60i container) I know a little about setting the aperture to get a shallow depth of field and using manual focus. Record everything the highest quality possible - MXP (which is 1920 x 1080 resolution 24Mbps bitrate)

I've done some research, and this is what I know: GT 240 DDR5 512 MB (which is better for this?) I'm very new to this and would like to learn from those with experience. I know my equipment is consumer grade, but I want to get the best results possible for now. I'm looking to achieve the most professional cinema-like look possible with the equipment I have or with minimal upgrades.
